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By Gerald Lynch You can count the GPU teraflops, the pixel-pushing power and the platform exclusives all you want, but for developers to fully display the potential a new milestone gaming hardware device offers, that elusive ‘killer app’ is still paramount to success. It’s a conundrum both Sony and Microsoft are facing with their PS4…

By Andrew Hoyle The 5-inch phone has a metal body, octa-core processor and a 13-megapixel camera. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Jon Porter PSN users in the UK have received an email saying that prices for the service, which is required to play online, will be increasing at the end of the August. Prices for an annual subscription will be increasing from £39.99 to £49.99. For a quarterly subscription the cost will rise by £5…

By Darren Allan Following in the footsteps of Sky, the BBC has announced it will be bringing live eSports coverage to viewers every weekend for the next six weeks on BBC Three (which as you may recall, is now an online channel). There will be four hours of live action broadcast every weekend, thanks to…

By Emme Hall This is what happens when off-road enthusiasts get their nerd on. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Devin Coldewey At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they translate what’s said into the language spoken by each participant. Essentially it’s…

By Devin Coldewey Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup, a global competition of high-tech student projects, reached its culmination this week accompanied by the usual pomp at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The winner of the $100,000 grand prize and 365 days of bragging rights is X.GLU, a Czech team that created a custom smart glucose meter…

By Wayne Cunningham Although it can’t claim a huge practicality gain over the standard Panamera, the new Sport Turismo version certainly shows how good a wagon can look. …read more Source:: cnet Digital Cameras

Samsung is working on the Galaxy Note 8 Emperor Edition, with 256 GB of internal storage and 6 GB of RAM. The move follows what the company did for the Galaxy S8, which had a special version in South Korea. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle Regardless of how busy your personal calendar is, it’s safe to say that the console game release calendar is probably even busier. Unfortunately, the combination of these two things is rarely conducive to you buying and playing all the great games you want to as soon as they’re released. It’s not just…

By Ashlee Clark Thompson The website has created a Bluetooth-connected cooktop to work in tandem with its popular Tasty recipes. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Darren Allan It’s just a few short days now until the official reveal of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, and we’ve had another benchmark leak – this time from a ‘sort of’ official source – plus some potentially alarming news on pricing. The benchmark is from 3DMark’s Fire Strike test and was conducted…

By Anthony Ha Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: BuzzFeed is making its first smart appliance, the Tasty One Top, available for pre-order. It sounds a little weird for a digital media company to try to sell you a fancy hot plate, but this is part of BuzzFeed Product Labs, which was created…

By Kevin Lee AMD’s family of Ryzen processors has made a name for itself with high core and thread counts, but their most appealing facet has been always affordability. With the introduction of Ryzen 3, AMD’s newest processors finally dip below the $150 or £170 range. The Ryzen 3 1300X sits at the top of…

By Brian Heater,Veanne Cao Nick Woodman believes QuikStories represents the path forward for GoPro. The company’s founder/CEO doesn’t hold back. “You can say this is the biggest thing we’ve done to simplify the experience of sharing video since the invention of the GoPro itself,” he says matter of factly. Investors haven’t always agreed with his…